2025 Taigu District Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in May)

Taigu Longquan Palace was built in 1355 AD, during the Yuan Dynasty. Surrounded by Phoenix Mountain, it has a history of 670 years. It is a famous Taoist architectural complex in Shanxi Province and has always been a place for people to relax. 🌈 Highlights: ✅ This is the main scenic spot of "Phoenix Mountain Spring Scenery," one of the ten scenic spots in Taigu. The ancient temple is quiet and beautiful, with few people. It is a good place to avoid the crowds during the May Day holiday. ✅ In front of the temple is a tall, exquisitely carved stone archway. The pavilions and towers of the entire temple are arranged layer by layer on the mountain. Ancient pines, cypresses, and ancient tree roots are interspersed among them. Moreover, the Longquan in the Water Mother Cave is continuous, clear as jade, and flows all year round. Drinking it is refreshing. The Fengshui Pagoda on the top of the mountain is majestic and towering into the clouds, magnificent and beautiful. ✅ Yuan Haowen, a great poet of the Yuan Dynasty, left several poems here. Fu Shan of the Ming Dynasty inscribed the plaque "Mountains Surround Water," and Zhao Tieshan of the Qing Dynasty inscribed "Listening to the Clear Sound of Mountains and Rivers," which added a lot of cultural heritage to Longquan Palace. 🎫 Ticket: Free 🚗 Transportation: Take bus T16 or T17 to reach it; navigation 🧭 and driving are more convenient and faster

In China, there is such a place, it is a millennium-old ancient city just 21 minutes from Taiyuan, once known as China's Wall Street, free yet little known! Perhaps curious friends will ask, where exactly is this place once called China's Wall Street? What are the unknown secrets there? With these questions and curiosity, today let's talk about the stories of Taigu Ancient City. Taigu Ancient City has a long history and grand scale. The city was founded in the sixth year of Jiande of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (577), and has a history of more than 1400 years. During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, the city was heightened with brick-built gates. In the fourth year of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, the brick city was rebuilt, with an added circular wall, on an unprecedented scale. Over the next few hundred years, with continuous repairs, the city walls became tall, thick, and complete with facilities such as enemy towers, barbicans, and moats, until the walls were eventually demolished. Inside the city, there were four streets, eight wells, and seventy-two alleys, with the Drum Tower at the center, radiating three main streets to the east, south, and west, and the old county government office to the north of the tower. The houses in the city are mostly two-story buildings with front porches, relatively high in architectural grade, and still retain the old architectural style. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Jin merchant guilds emerged in Taigu, bringing a great deal of wealth to the city. Taigu Ancient City was expanded again and again, far exceeding the scale of Pingyao Ancient City.

|||Taigu Travel. Sixty miles south from Taiyuan lies the Taigu District in the center of Shanxi. Wandering through the ancient streets, one's eyes are greeted by old houses, old mansions, and old courtyards, while the mottled and aged walls seem to tell of past prosperity. The old residence of Kong Xiangxi, the Minister of Finance during the Republic of China, the White Pagoda of the Wubian Monastery built during the Western Jin Dynasty (272 AD), the Ming Dynasty Drum Tower... all bear witness to the scenes of bygone days.